Editing Laeken (section)

===Chinese Pavilion and Japanese Tower===
{{Main|Museums of the Far East}}
[[File:0 Laeken Pavillon chinois 1.JPG|thumb|Chinese Pavilion of the [[Museums of the Far East]]]]

A little north of the Royal Palace stand the Chinese Pavilion and the [[Japanese Tower of Brussels|Japanese Tower]]. The Chinese Pavilion was commissioned by Leopold II and now forms part of the [[Museums of the Far East]]. The rooms of the Chinese Pavilion are designed in  ''[[chinoiserie]]'' [[Louis XIV style|Louis XIV]] and [[Louis XVI style|Louis XVI]] styles. They are decorated with Chinese motifs, [[Chinese ceramics|chinaware]] and [[Household silver|silverware]]. The Japanese Tower is a [[pagoda]] (known as a [[Tō]]), inspired by a construction Leopold II saw at the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|Paris Exposition of 1900]]. Leopold II [[Commission (art)|commission]]ed his architect [[Alexandre Marcel]] to build him a similar one in Laeken.<ref name="Taylor">{{Cite journal |last=Mesmaeker |first=Delphine |date=2016 |title=The Japanese Tower at the Royal Domain in Laeken: A remarkable application of Japanese lacquer techniques in Belgium |journal=Studies in Conservation |language=en |volume=61 |issue=Supplement 3 |pages=109–116 |doi=10.1080/00393630.2016.1227053|doi-access=free }}</ref>